UNSUNG HEROES
HULL TAXI DRIVERS SAVE GIRL FROM BRIDGE PLUNGE
Two taxi drivers sprang into action to stop a girl throwing herself off the Humber Bridge. The 17-year-old had to be restrained as she tried to get over the rail- ings, telling one of the men: “Leave me, leave me, I want to die.” Marian Dobre, from East Riding Cars, picked the teenager up and she asked first to be taken to the city centre then the Hum- ber Bridge.
Halfway across she leapt out of the car and made a dash for the railings, but Mr Dobre just managed to grab her.
The second taxi driver, Craig McDonagh, who was taking another passenger across the bridge, saw the pair struggling and got out to help.
He told the Yorkshire Post: “We calmed her down but then she made a bolt for the railings. We managed to restrain her and marched her away. “The other driver ran to get his car and we forced her into it. We locked her into it until Humber Rescue and the police arrived.” Mr Dobre said the girl, who was wearing pyja- mas, had been calm at
first but became agitat- ed when they got onto the bridge. He said: “She told me she didn’t have enough money and she wanted to stop on the bridge but I told her I couldn’t, I’m not supposed to let people out.
“At one point she said if I wasn’t going to stop she would jump from the car. I tried to lock the doors but she was too quick and opened the door.” Both men were mod- est about their actions. Mr Dobre said: “I think everybody would do the same thing, to be honest.”
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CANNING TOWN DRIVERS HAILED BRAVE FIRE HEROES
A brave bus driver with the help of a hero hack- ney carriage driver risked their lives to alert Canning Town resi- dents that their block of flats was ablaze. The bus driver saw smoke coming out from a building on Beckton Road. He immediately stopped the bus as did the taxi driver to help.
After dialling 999, they both ran into the stair- well of the building to wake up the residents. They shouted up but
were worried that peo- ple would not want to come out.
The front door was open and flames were just belching out of the building.
The bus driver told the Stratford and Newham Express: “It was so scary. We just thought ‘Let’s get these people out of there.’ I’m sur- prised in myself and I think the cabbie was too. You couldn’t stay in there, the smoke was so dense, but we didn’t want to just
stand by and then people got hurt.” The brave pair made more than five trips into the smoke-filled stairwell and nine peo- ple escaped including three young children. The emergency servic- es arrived soon afterwards and fire- fighters warned the residents to stand back in case the build- ing blew up.
London Ambulance Service crew treated two people for smoke inhalation.
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A quick-thinking taxi driver has been hailed a hero for saving the life of a seven-year-old girl. Paul Mason, from Farn- worth, dashed from his taxi to give Megan Wightman first aid after she was knocked down by a car. Her mother,
Katie
Wightman, told the Bolton Evening News: “I am convinced she would not be here if he had not done what he did. I cannot thank him enough.”
Megan was injured near her grandmoth- er’s home in Prestwich last month. Mr Mason had been called to pick up the family, but Megan had gone out- side so her gran had arranged to take the youngster back home later. As Mrs Wight-
Taxi driver Paul Mason, who sprang into action when seven-year-old Megan Wightman was knocked down
man drove off in the taxi, she realised there had been an accident and Megan had been injured.
The mum of four said: “Everyone at the scene was in shock. They just stood there not know- ing what to do. The taxi driver was trained in first aid and he went to her straight away.” Mr Mason said: “I
made sure she was in the recovery position and checked her pulse, which was very light. I covered her up to make sure she was warm and stayed with her until the ambulance arrived so she could keep focused.” Para- medics took Megan to the Manchester Chil- dren’s Hospital’s intensive care unit.
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